Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), May 2016

by: einarvollset
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Santa Cruz, CA - team is 100% Remote.<p>North American time zone required. Unfortunately this is a hard requirement. &quot;I am willing to work on US time zone&quot; is not good enough (it lasts for a little while and then I start to feel bad about waking you up :)<p>Fluent English a huge bonus.<p>Technologies: iOS (obj-c) and Android.<p>Familiarity with: github, CI, various SDKs (marketing, tech, etc)<p>I am looking for more team members for AppAftercare, my app maintenance business. The work is unusual (mostly small fixes and tweaks) as is the way I want you to work (need to be pretty responsive to issues as submitted, but can be fitted around other project work you might have) and the way I compensate (a fixed monthly, per-app fee regardless of workload).<p>Most of our developers use us to fill out gaps in their freelancing schedule and get some guaranteed income.<p>Am also looking for iOS and Android developers looking for part time work (eg 1 full week&#x2F;month for several months in a row)<p>Please email me with GitHub repo links as well as links to apps in production + your current hourly rate and location.<p>einar@appaftercare.com

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. OpenCraft - Open Source developer on Open edX (Worldwide, company based in Berlin)<p>Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of nine developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia &amp; Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS&#x2F;OpenStack, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Interview process: 30 minutes Hangout, then a (paid) test task for selected candidates (a contribution to the Open edX project) - the decision is taken based on how you handle the upstream contribution.<p>To apply, end an email to jobs+dev-hn@opencraft.com, including: 1) A short explanation of why the role interests you (no formal cover letter, please :) ) 2) A list of links to free software contributions you have made, preferably to third-party projects. You can also include communication threads or documentations you have written if any, as free software contribution is more than just about code. 3) A link to your github account 4) Your resume (or a link to an online resume like LinkedIn)

by: kaizensoze
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Not a direct employer, but this list might help: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaizensoze&#x2F;remote-freelance-jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaizensoze&#x2F;remote-freelance-jobs</a>

by: dabent
text: Atlanta, GA<p>Looking for a MySQL DBA to review our current setup, give guidance and provide a roadmap to clustering.<p>We need an expert who can mentor our current staff and help us not only ensure that our current systems are running optimally, but provide a way for us to get to a high availability&#x2F;high performance environment eventually.<p>This will start as a short-term engagement, but could lead to longer term or even full-time work.<p>Email in profile...

by: jurymatic
text: SEEKING FREELANCER
Location: Bay Area, Remote OK<p>Back-end: nginx&#x2F;postgre&#x2F;redis&#x2F;celery&#x2F;django<p>Front-end: mezzanine&#x2F;bootstrap&#x2F;websockets<p>Fledgling B2B legal tech startup in SF in need of a full stack Python developer. Experience with complex asynchronous scraping is a plus (we&#x27;re eschewing Scrapy in favor of rolling our own). Opportunities for machine learning work in the future.<p>Would consider a co-founder&#x2F;first hire if local, interested, and the fit is right. Have an MVP and customers willing to pay good money at very high margins. We&#x27;re solving a well-defined problem. This is a profit, not growth, oriented business. Currently trying to raise a proper seed round.<p>info@jurymatic.com

by: twog
text: REMOTE<p>Im looking for a backend developer who has a strong background in Ruby on Rails to work develop an API. You will be working with a talented frontend &amp; design team working on our ember frontend + iOS application.<p>An ideal candidate would be someone who understands building startups with urgency, a good communicator, and who takes pride in their code.<p>Please email me with your Portfolio&#x2F;Github&#x2F;Apps in production links, as well as your location. This is a fulltime contract position for at least the next 4-6 months, with the opportunity to turn into a fulltime job (if you want)<p>tonigemayel(at)gmail.com

by: ammmir
text: Seoul, South Korea or REMOTE<p>We’re looking for a JavaScript UI engineer who is well versed in React, JSX, ES6, HTML5, CSS3, etc. to implement the UI of a desktop app built with the Electron framework. The app has already been designed and we’re now looking for some help on the UI implementation side to make things look beautiful. Experience with CSS animations would be a huge plus!<p>Please email inquiries AT pilvy DOT com with your portfolio, GitHub, or anything else that showcases your work. Thanks for looking!

by: callida
text: SEEKING FREELANCER
We are looking for a Django&#x2F;Python developer   
Must have:  Django experience, AWS familiarity
Desired:    iOS and Android experience.
Location:   New York, NY in Union Square.  This assignment cannot be done remotely.
Contact:       Please email careers at callidaenergy dot com 
Thanks.

by: callida
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We are looking for a Django&#x2F;Python developer<p>Location:     New York, NY in Union Square.  This assignment cannot be done remotely.<p>Must have:  Django experience, AWS familiarity<p>Desired:       iOS and Android experience.<p>Email:          careers at callidaenergy dot com<p>Thanks.